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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Percentile
Reading Comprehension Support
Three Layers of Language
Towre
2. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Derived Score
Closed Syllable
Raw score
Six basic types of syllables
3. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Ability
WIATII
Visual Processing
Base Word
4. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Consonant
Matthew Effect
Diphthong
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
5. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Texas Education Code 28.06
Rate
WIATII
Modern English
6. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Norm-referenced tests
Tactile
Standard deviation
Oral Language
7. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Accuracy
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Battery
Oral Language
8. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
VAKT
Phonics
VV
Visual Processing
9. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Suffix
Combination
Cedilla
Closed Syllable
10. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Cognitive Assessment
Funding
WRAT
Frank Smith
11. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Impulsivity
Chall's Stage 0
WRAT
Reliability
12. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Top-down Reading Approach
VC
Base Word
Standard deviation
13. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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14. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
GORT
Attention
Norm-Referenced Test
Criterion-Referenced Test
15. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
The Norman Conquest
GORT
Criterion-Referenced Test
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
16. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Prefix
Chall's Stage 3
Phonological Awareness
Affix
17. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Percentile/ percentile rank
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Matthew Effect
CTOPP
18. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Standard score
Texas Education Code 28.06
Mastery level
Percentile
19. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Phonics
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Syllable Instruction
Breve
20. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Trigraph
Phonemic/ decodable words
IDEA
Simultaneous teaching
21. Ability to understand and express spoken language
ALTA
Norm-Referenced Test
Oral Language
The Norman Conquest
22. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Prefix
Composite Score
Syntax
Closed Syllable
23. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Diphthong
ESL
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
James Hinshelwood
24. Feeling through fingertips
Chall's Stage 3
Tactile
Phonics approach
Criterion referenced tests
25. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
IMSLEC
Linguistic Method
Mastery level
Multisensory
26. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Receptive language
Tilde
Grapheme
Quadrigraph
27. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Progress Monitoring
Achievement test
Sight Words
Letter naming Chart
28. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Age equivalent
Anna Gillingham
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
29. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Norm-referenced tests
Prefix
Phonemic Awareness
Synthetic Instruction
30. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Diagnostic tests
Six basic types of syllables
RTI
31. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Universal Screening
Open Syllable
Profile
MSL
32. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Frank Smith
Derived Score
Raw score
James Hinshelwood
33. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Tactile
Percentile
Greek layer of language
Auditory Learners
34. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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35. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Analytic
Great Vowel Shift
Rate
Visual Processing
36. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Raw score
Phonics
Phonics approach
Stanine Scores
37. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
CTOPP
Macron
SBOE
Mathew Effect
38. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Modern English
Phonemic/ decodable words
Multisensory
Orthography
39. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Standard Scores
Tactile
Vowel Digraph
Visual Learners
40. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
V >
Visual Processing
Direct Instruction
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
41. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Three Layers of Language
Standard deviation
Greek layer of language
Trigraph
42. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Progress Monitoring
Mathew Effect
Criterion referenced tests
Joe Torgesen
43. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Auditory Processing
Letter naming Chart
Prefix
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
44. Individual Educational Plan
Diagnostic tests
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Towre
IEP
45. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Joe Torgesen
[-'le
Phoneme
Diagnostic tests
46. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
WIATII
Linguistic Method
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Grade equivalents
47. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Cognition
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Closed Syllable
48. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Chall's Stage 0
Multisensory
Components of Reading Instruction
Quadrigraph
49. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
VV
Quadrigraph
Three Layers of Language
Standard Scores
50. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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